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Chrome “find in page” with smart search in unicode characters

Look at this chrome search for the Danish letter “æ” in a page.
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Notice how Chrome actually also shows occurrences of “ae” when searching for “æ”.

The same thing goes when searching for “Ø”, “Ö” or similar accents: They will show occurences of “o”.

Usability wise, I think this is a rather good principle for end-user solutions, just like Google Chrome. But, but. As an advanced user, i would like to know if i can turn it off? Not as a general setting. Because the usecase would be that you search, and find too much. Based on this, if you search for something with accented characters, a new checkbox should appear. My suggestion (mockup):

This way, you will start with a “wide” search and end up being able to filter in more correctly.

This entry was posted by Jesper Rønn-Jensen on Thursday, September 29th, 2011 at 21:42 (GMT-1) and is filed under Browser, Usability. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.

One Response to “Chrome “find in page” with smart search in unicode characters”

  1. Petter Says:
    January 2nd, 2012 at 14:29 (GMT-1)

    I think it’s a great thing for people who aren’t using native-language keyboards for foreign characters and symbols for international queries, but, an option to switch it off would make it more user-friendly.

    Petter